True Yoga
In my neighbourhood, there are quite a few yoga studios. Only most of them don’t actually teach yoga. Some teach a form of asana or posture, but in many cases it’s about fitness. In fact, …
Category: Books
Nothing Seen yet it Remains
“Although the seen has disappeared for one whose purpose is accomplished, still it is not destroyed because it is common to others.” Yoga Sutra 2v22 In Unity, the seer and seen merge, leaving only the …
Family Charges
Recently Adyashanti, the Zen based teacher, appeared on Oprah around his book, Falling into Grace. A little more advanced than Eckhart’s approach. One of the interesting details when touching on the pain body was how …
The Pain Body
I recently saw a piece of the ’08 conversation between Eckhart Tolle and Oprah, talking about the pain body. He also associated this with the ego. I wrote several articles on the series back at …
Security of Person
One of the deep changes that arises with awakening is a profound sense of security. While we’ve typically experienced the rest of our life as somewhat fraught and difficult, when we discover our true nature …
Sacred Cows
If you enjoyed the film What the Bleep, one of it’s makers, Betsy Chasse, has recently published a book called Tipping Sacred Cows. In this case, the Sacred Cows are our personal stories about the …
Seer, Sage, or Shanti
There’s a pernicious idea people often have that the awake are supposed to teach. That enlightenment somehow gives you a teaching mission. I’ve seen a number of such people start teaching, then fade away. Or …
Masculine and Feminine
Periodically, I’ve written here on subjects like conscious relationship and the difference between ego-relating and heart-relating. I’ve also talked about how relationships can show up as a way to work out our energetic resistance, mirroring …
Empath Empowerment
As we’re in the energy age, it should be no surprise that there is a major rise in the presence of energy healing. You’ll now find all sorts of different energy modalities. Even a bit …
The Kingdom of Heaven
Recently, I heard that the Kingdom of Heaven was mentioned 80 times in the Bible. It was a key teaching of Jesus, that the Kingdom of Heaven was within. Not in the sky, not “out …
Why Bliss?
In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell said “Follow you Bliss.” In more detail: “Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there …
The Time of Yoga
The Yoga Sutras are a key text in our understanding of yoga, meditation, non-violence and other spiritual practices. It underlies the various “schools” of Yoga, even to modern bastardizations like “hot” yoga. The author of …